| Chapter 253 |
| 2017 -- S 0231 SUBSTITUTE A Enacted 07/19/2017 |
| A N A C T |
| RELATING TO TOWNS AND CITIES - EMERGENCY POLICE POWER |
| Introduced By: Senator Gayle L. Goldin |
| Date Introduced: February 02, 2017 |
| It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: |
| SECTION 1. Section 45-42-3 of the General Laws in Chapter 45-42 entitled "Emergency |
| Police Power" is hereby amended to read as follows: |
| 45-42-3. Mutual aid -- Campus police officer Mutual aid -- Campus police officer |
| and special police officer. |
| (a) Any public or private educational institution of higher learning located in this state, |
| with a police or other public safety department consisting of campus police officers appointed |
| pursuant to chapter 52 of title 16, or special police officers appointed pursuant to chapter 2.1 of |
| title 12, may enter into a mutual aid agreement with the city or town in which the institution is |
| primarily located, solely for the purpose of providing emergency assistance in response to |
| specific incidents at the request of the police chief of the city or town. Officers appointed under |
| this these chapter chapters must have satisfactorily completed a training academy certified by the |
| Police Officer's Commission on Standards and Training. |
| (b) The mutual aid agreement will not be effective until formally approved by the city or |
| town council in which the institution is located, after a public hearing and by the governing body |
| or office of the institution of higher learning. |
| (c) The special police officers responding to a request for emergency assistance pursuant |
| to a duly approved mutual aid agreement shall have the same authority, powers, duties, privileges, |
| and immunities for jurisdictional purposes as a duly appointed police officer of the city or town |
| making the request. |
| (d) The special police officers responding to the request for emergency assistance under |
| the mutual aid agreement shall be subject to, and considered within, the control and authority of |
| the requesting chief of police for the duration of the emergency and until released by the |
| requesting chief of police. |
| SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage. |
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